The web is abuzz with prompts for 2013 planning. “Make this your best year ever!” everyone seems to be shouting. And every day I come across a new planning tool to help me do just that.
“Too bad I can’t do that,” I caught myself thinking.
Because you see, I’m pregnant — with twins.
I launched this business last May, and there’s still so much I want to do, so many tools and programs I want to create to help you write the book you were meant to write.
But knowing come June I’ll be back in newborn land — times two — I thought I had to sit the first half of the year on the sidelines, too.
Thankfully I’ve learned not to believe everything I think.
I recently wrote on my parenting blog about how this news of twins initially knocked me down physically and emotionally. But now that I’m feeling better, I’ve realized a few things.
- I can still make plans.
- I can still grow my business in 2013.
- I can still welcome the new clients who are showing up.
And most of all:
My goals are still the same, they just might take longer than I’d planned.
Maybe I’ll go crazy and indulge in one of those fun planning tools. And just like last year, I’ll come up with my guiding word for the year rather than making New Year’s resolutions.
But I’m not going to let myself feel left behind just because I’m not able to grow my business this year as much as I initially thought.
Maybe you’re in a similar situation — maybe life or business circumstances mean you won’t have the space you desperately want to write your book.
Trust that it will still be there for you, and that your life experience this next year will make it an even better book than if you’d written in now.
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Writing prompt
Keep your hand in it
You may not be making the progress you’d hoped on your book. But instead of letting it keep you up at night with frustration, try this super simple trick:
- Start a new Google Doc
- Whenever you have a thought or want to make a note about the book you’ll eventually write, make the note.
- You may even want to date it, journal style.
There. Done.
You’ve captured your thought rather than hoping you remember it or pushing it away because “this isn’t the time.”
You’re slowly making progress instead of pushing the thought away.
This is creating with ease and flow.
And there’s nothing creativity loves like ease and flow.